Saturday, December 11, 2010

Experiments in Telepathy

Since I was about 14, I have off and on played a game with friends in which I guess the number they are thinking. I have managed to do this with remarkable accuracy most times. Once I even told a friend what she said vs. then number she had actually thought. She was floored. I generally ask for a 2 digit number just to keep it interesting.

In the past year I have begun asking friends to project objects into my mind. This has proven even more incredible. Recently, my friend Jocy stayed over and we ended up playing the game for a while. I was guessing so accurately that it got bizarre. We started with two digits and I guessed these four in a row: 16, 28, 17, then I accurately guessed "14" before she had the chance to tell me she was thinking of a number.

After that, we switched to objects. I concentrated and got this transparent bubble. (Usually the person sends me an object and I guess the properties, like color, texture, etc.) Instead of asking her if that was correct, I sarcastically said "OK, something with a color would help; I saw a big bubble." She said she had sent me a snow globe.

The next thing I saw was a deep blue with stars. But it wasn't the sky, just something deep blue with stars on it. She had sent me a wizard's hat. I started writing it all down then (hence this play-by-play).

I missed the next one.

The next thing I got was confusing because it was just gray fuzz. She had sent me her dog Ozy - a gray Schnauzer.

Then I got a hat and she had sent me a crown.

Then I got a really strong impression of purple and that's exactly what she had sent me -- just purple. (That has a logic to it, though, following crown.)

I suggested we switch to animals. I saw a worm and she said she had sent me a centipede.

The next thing I saw was a red Betta fish, but for some reason I didn't trust I was correct. (Sometimes I can just feel if it's a hit or miss.) I hesitated and said "I saw a fish -- a scarlet one." And turns out she had sent me a red Betta.

After that I got a vague image of a cute, brown, furry thing like a groundhog or something. She had sent me a badger.

After that, I got every two or three correct. They included black & fuzzy, which was black felt; yellow, which was a rubber duck (& those two were in a row); a yellow doll, which was a little girl's buttermilk colored bedroom with a doll in it; the number 77, and the number 5472 in that sequence.

After about an hour, I started missing constantly so it appeared the streak was over.

The next day, Jocy attended the MUFON Christmas party with us. On our way there, she was sending me images in the car. I guessed a few correctly, but the most bizarre was this: I vividly saw a panda bear. It turns out she had sent me a panda bear eating bamboo. When we got to the party, I asked for some coffee, and the man closest to the pot grabbed a mug for me and poured me some. The picture on the mug was a panda eating bamboo. When I showed it to Jocy, she said that is exactly what she had seen in her mind. She said it hadn't even been a live Panda, it had been a picture just like on the mug. Very strange.

Last night I played the game with my friend Jamie. Again, I seemed to have hit a streak for a good while. Below are some of the things I guessed, followed by the actual object Jamie sent me. (Normally, I stick to properties rather than trying to put a name to the thing.)

a wooden twig-like thing, upright / her small peach tree outside that is losing all its leaves and has become twiggy

something pink and delicate / cotton candy

a green clown or doll-like thing / the Grinch

a large, wide, scaly-face, like a fish or reptile / a bearded dragon

There were more, but those were the ones that stand out in my mind.

My sister and I used to play this over the phone with amazing results. I only remember one specific though, and it was when she asked me to guess an object she was holding. I said it was large and white and soft, like a pillow. Turns out it was a large, white stuffed bunny. (I didn't know she even owned one.)

The only other ability I have been exploring (or re-exploring) is that of finding lost objects. I've never been entirely convinced I have this ability, but I did have one bizarre time when, at a friend's house for only the 2nd time ever, I fished around in my mind for a book he had lost. I don't think I'd ever been in his and his wife's bedroom, but suddenly I knew the book was under the bed on the left side. I went down the hall, reached under the bed and pulled it out. He said he never kept it there -- he always kept it on his coffee table. I was only 14 then, and for the rest of my teen years I had fairly good success with that gift. I once located a needle I had lost somewhere in the house. I didn't even know what ROOM it was in, but when I mentally searched for it, I felt it by the front door and located it there. I would even have friends hide objects for me and I would "feel" them out and go right to them without having to search.

However, as an adult, I can't remember this gift hardly ever working. Until last week. Last week, I dropped a tiny nail (the kind you use to secure those metal-toothed hangers onto the back of a picture). The nail landed on a busy, Persian rug, so I was having a terrible time finding it. On a whim, I quit looking and closed my eyes. I personified the nail and asked it where it was. Immediately, I knew it was toward the front of the rug by my feet. I opened my eyes and located it there immediately.

About 20 minutes later, I was getting some chips and I took off the paper clip I use as a fastener. I normally lay the paperclip on the kitchen counter, but it wasn't there and I realized I must have dropped it. I looked around with no success, so I again closed my eyes and asked it where it was. Immediately the thought came to me that it was in the pantry floor, and I located it there. A skeptic might say that I subconsciously heard the paper clip fall when I was grabbing the bag out of the pantry. A skeptic might also say I had subconsciously seen the tiny nail when I was looking for it. I don't know. But it's interesting.